Apple Magic Mouse once drug product from Apple. These are the devices that you want to buy, and buying them, you can easily put up with some nuances and start learning to look at some things differently. After all, in his hands is really high quality, stylish and functional item, it is convenient to work with her, she's beautiful, compact, unusual and attracts the eyes of others. To take a new line of iMac, iPod Touch, iPhone, MacBook / MacBook Pro... the list can be long, but there are always exceptions. One of these, I think Mighty Mouse. Overall, good "mighty mouse", unusual, attractive appearance, but small and wildly uncomfortable trackball many people spoiled life. Vote for him ruble people did not want to, giving personal funds for traditional, standard, but more comfortable handles of other manufacturers. In particular, I like the Logitech products.
With the Magic Mouse situation can change dramatically. Do not believe me? Then let's try to figure out together whether the new rodent from Cupertino is indeed a worthy substitute not only for the Mighty Mouse, but also any other mice living at Mac users.
So cherished novelty was in my hands. Immediately struck by the gadget package. What can I say - this is the apogee of minimalism. The transparent plastic box sealed with two pieces of Scotch brand. Inside - a plastic stand, which is located in the mouse itself, pasted another strip of adhesive tape. Simple and tasteful. In this case, nothing is loose, do not squeak and it looks great. On the reverse side of the package is located a short description of the mouse features that it is useful. After all, no scroll wheel, no trackball device no. Without knowing the specifics of the mouse and you can get lost.
Magic Mouse is absolutely symmetrical, and if not for the brand apple logo on its surface, it would have had difficulty with the definition of which side of the pitch in the rodent.
The upper cover is made of a transparent glossy plastic. White substrate hides fingerprints appearing on the surface of the device during operation. In addition, the gloss looks spectacular, though in this case there is a minus in front of him, but more on that later.
The lower part of the all-aluminum. On the cover, concealing battery compartment located one nadgryzennym apple logo. Removed it is very easy - you just move the black lever in the bottom of the gadget. After that, you can access the battery. The Magic Mouse has two elements Energizer size AA batteries - they are supplied. Over familiar for iPod is the power switch has svetodiodyny indicator. When the mouse is turned on, it glows green.
I also want to pay attention to the plastic strip on the left and right of the battery compartment. The material used here is not like in the majority of mice - it is not so smooth, but it seems to me, is more resistant to wear. That is, the mouse seems, can be used on any surface, whether it is top of the table, a sofa or a piece of paper, without fear of wear on the surface of the device.
The mouse is very compact and thin, but weighty. However, its mass in work does not stop. The photos below viewing hero compared with mice Logitech MX Revolution and MX Nano.
At the Magic Mouse has one physical button. In fact, the entire surface of the mouse is, this is the button that is quite loud, if not relish clicks. Very similar to mouse touchpad in the MacBook Unibody. It is this element of laptops Apple, only passed on to the outside, my new mouse and recalled.
Connect the product to a computer through Bluetooth. In Mac OS X 10.6.2 device is recognized without problems and has earned a floor kick. If the gadget is installed on a PC with Mac OS X 10.5.8, then you must download the appropriate update from the Apple website, or Magic Mouse does not work.
After connecting the mouse to the MacBook Pro 990 first thing I noticed - it's very slow to move the cursor using a rodent. It does not matter, came into the mouse option and set the maximum speed. It was better, but still somehow slow. Connected Logitech MX Nano - the cursor to "fly" even at medium speed settings returned to the Magic Mouse - unusually slow. Away from the computer, I drank tea and talked with his son through an hour back to the gadget - like already and everything is normal with the speed. It seems - it is a matter of habit. Still, for me there is no margin rate. More or less comfortable feel only when the maximum value of the speed of movement of the cursor in the mouse settings.
There's also set additional options, such as simulating the right mouse button (pressing the right side of the mouse works like the right button), screen zooming and scrolling with inertia. Really liked the scrolling with inertia, it is a pity that this is not the touchpad settings. When activated, scrolling pages reminds of iPhone, that is, stop scrolling is smooth, but not instantly. Moreover, as smoothly and inertia scaling occurs and the screen.
As I mentioned above, Magic Mouse resembles an imposed outside the MacBook touchpad. Instead of the scroll wheel or trackball uncomfortable it is installed the touch panel. It works the same way as a touchpad, allowing you to scroll through lists touch of a finger, move between photos or web pages with the help of so called Swipe two fingers to zoom in at the cursor position (it is necessary to use also the keyboard - hold down the button Control). Officially, that is all that allows Apple to get up from the touch panel keypad, but with the help of third party tools, for example, BetterTouchTool or MouseWizard 5.1, Its capacity can be expanded.
At work, I really liked the mouse - it is really easy to use. However, I note that on the glossy finish your finger slides is not very good, but eventually you get used to it and do not feel any inconvenience. If I was the owner of an iMac the "mighty" or any other mouse, instantly would have changed his rodent on Magic Mouse, despite the insane price that wring it for local suppliers. But there's nothing you can do about it. Officially, the gadget into the country has not yet delivered. In addition, the novelty effect is activated, and the pre-fever. As a result, at a cost of about US $ 70, in his native country, it is offered for $ 110 and more. Although not the fact that the formal delivery to somehow change the price to the consumer in a better way.
But I am the owner of MacBook Pro, in conjunction with which the mouse for a long time do not use. Used to work only with the touchpad, and head to me enough for everything, including basic editing of images. In casual play toys with a mouse, of course, it is much more convenient than using a touchpad. I gladly drove Peggle Nights, Zuma's Revenge - Magic Mouse has proved to be just fine, but for games I have a big, bulky, yet powerful Windows-based PCs c is not less healthy mouse Logitech MX Revolution. But a new arm of Apple's officially with Windows is not friendly. With the tambourine dance, of course, canBut in this sense I do not see. For those serious gaming normal rodent fit better.